Lingamish moved to a new address and is using the prettiness of wordpress. Show him some love since the spam-ware is going to give him a headache. Anyway, he has an interesting concept about Bible Puzzlers. It’s sort of like a Biblical Studies Group Participation thing but focus more on Bible Study and Application and subsequent application. Check it out. (I aso recommended some of you for it).
A couple of carnivas are up right now.The Portions Christian Carnival and the Biblical Studies carnival is also up. I submitted my post on John 3:14-16 to both of them but I only made the Christian cut…heh heh. Ah well, there’s always next month.
We Christians like to get into debates that there really is
no answer to. And we get into a huge huff about it too. One old debate was the
one about Angels and Pin points (not pin heads as is often cited although it
does result in a certain amount of pin-headishness). I found a few articles:
one that confirmed that there was some wacky discussions during the medieval
period (though this one may not have been one of them), one that offers a
methodology to answer the question and one (here’s the link and it’s also in
the read more) that actually mathematically counted how many Angels can dance
on the point of a pin.
Keep brother Tim in your prayers. He had a form of skin infection while on the road anway from friends and family but the Lord stood close.
When looking at John 3:14-16 I’ve encountered three major
views which expand, restrict or flatten the text. The labels which I will be
using are placed in an effort to categorize the interpretation not to refer to
any of them pejoratively. Note that there may be some intermingling of these categories
but this post isn’t concerned with that. Neither is this post concerned with
any theological framework that may be influencing the interpretation. My sole
purpose is to see if either of the interpretations handles the material
correctly and if it supports the subsequent thesis.